Geo-intelligence for Pandemic Prevention and Control

Abstract

Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is developing at an unprecedented speed, which also greatly promoted the development of Geo-intelligence. Geo-intelligence has already acted an important role in the pandemic prevention and control, such as the rapid integration of multisource data related to pandemic, rapid visualization of pandemic information, and prediction of regional transmission. Taking the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention and control as an example, this study summarizes the important role of Geo-intelligence in the pandemic prevention and control from nine areas. This study introduced the important applications of Geo-intelligence in the fight against COVID-19, taking into account our previous work on spatial tracking and trajectory analysis, spatial transmission speed and scale prediction, spatial risk and epidemic control level classification, and cross-scale dynamic representation of epidemic maps in the fight against the epidemic. Our study provided solid support for government policy-making and effectiveness evaluation of the pandemic prevention and control during the outbreak of COVID-19. This study indicated that Geo-intelligence acted an important role in preventing and controlling pandemic. At the same time, the paper discussed the challenges and future developments of geographic intelligence.